Crimes Against Children Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960

Name: Crimes Against Children Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960
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ISBN: 9780807855966

ISBN-10: 0807855960

ISBN-13: 9780807855966

Edition: 2005

Authors: Stephen Robertson

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In the first half of the twentieth century, Americans' intense concern with sex crimes against children led to a wave of public discussion, legislative action, and criminal prosecution. Stephen Robertson provides the first large-scale, long-term study of how American criminal courts dealt with the prosecution of sexual violence. Robertson describes how the nineteenth-century approach to childhood as a single phase of innocence began to shift at the end of the century to include several stages of childhood development, prompting reformers to create legal categories such as statutory rape and carnal abuse to protect children. However, while ordinary New Yorkers' involvement in the prosecution…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/18/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.132
Language: English

Stephen Robertson is a lecturer in the department of history at the University of Sydney.




To rescue the developing child



The act of violence on a child of tender years



The crime against nature



To throw absolute protection around females of less than sixteen years of age



Making right a girl's ruin



Making adolescents



Crimes against children



Child molestation



Sex play



Separating the men from the boys